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Climate change could force 216 million from their homes: World Bank

Posted on September 14, 2021 by News Desk

Washington, Sept 13 (AFP/APP):Reduced agricultural production, water scarcity, rising sea levels and other adverse effects of climate change could cause up to 216 million people to leave their homes and migrate within their own countries by 2050, the World Bank has warned. The estimate from […]

Little to celebrate after 50 years of activism: Greenpeace chief

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Hooriya Qureshi

Amsterdam, Sept 13 (AFP/APP):Half a century after a small group of radicals created Greenpeace, the head of the environmental organisation warned that it still has far to go on the climate crisis before it can truly celebrate. Created on September 15, 1971 when a boat […]

France pleads EU to see nuclear as Green

Posted on September 11, 2021 by News Desk

Brdo Castle, Slovenia, Sept 10 (AFP/APP):French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Friday firmly defended nuclear power as a suitable energy to meet Europe’s net-zero emissions climate goal despite strong feeling in Germany that it is too dangerous. France derives the vast share of its […]

UN climate summit to be Scotland’s biggest policing operation

Posted on September 10, 2021 by News Desk

Edinburgh, Sept 9 (AFP/APP):The upcoming UN climate summit in Glasgow will be Scotland’s biggest ever policing operation, the officer in charge said on Thursday. Bernard Higgins said the 12-day COP26 event later this year, and expected environmental mass protests alongside, made it a “very complex […]

Funding needed to tackle life-shortening air pollution: report

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Hooriya Qureshi

Paris, Sept 7 (AFP/APP):Even as air pollution shaves years off life expectancy, fossil fuel projects get more funding than clean air initiatives, a global report said Tuesday. An annual survey by the Clean Air Fund, which looks into how much money is given to the […]

Armed with voting rights, native groups join conservation fray

Posted on September 6, 2021 by Hooriya Qureshi

Marseille, Sept 6 (AFP/APP):Newly armed with voting rights, indigenous peoples have come to the world’s leading conservation congress meeting in the French city of Marseille both hopeful and wary. They have demands, and will not go quietly into the night, their representatives say. “It makes […]

Coronavirus lockdowns cut pollution, but not all of it: UN experts

Posted on September 6, 2021 by News Desk

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 05 (APP):The world experienced a brief, sharp drop in emissions of air pollutants last year, especially in urban areas, amid lockdown measures and related travel restrictions put in place over the coronavirus pandemic, according to UN weather experts. The World Meteorological Organization […]

New project to track endangered species coming back from brink

Posted on September 5, 2021 by Hooriya Qureshi

Marseille, Sept 4 (AFP/APP):After decades of recording alarming declines in animals and plants, conservation experts have taken a more proactive approach, with a new “Green Status” launched on Saturday, billed as the first global measurement for tracking species recovery. Since 1964, the International Union for […]

Climate change blamed for havoc in northeast US floods

Posted on September 4, 2021 by Hooriya Qureshi

New York, Sept 4 (AFP/APP):Climate change and creaky infrastructure were blamed Friday for the scale of the impact from floods tearing through New York City when remnants of Hurricane Ida swept across the US northeast, killing at least 47 people. “We are in a whole […]

Global meeting aims to protect species on the brink

Posted on September 4, 2021 by News Desk

Marseille, Sept 3 (AFP/APP):The world’s leading global conservation congress opened on Friday, with warnings that humanity must tackle the grave risks of biodiversity loss and climate change together. The key message from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is that disappearing species […]

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